Garment-hanger.



. 'PATENTED JULY 9, 1907. E. K. (mason. GARMENT HANGER.

APPLIUATION FILED NOV. 20, 1905.

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PATENT OFFICE.

EVA K. GlBSON, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

GARMENT-HANGER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 9, 1907.

Application filed November 20, 1905. Serial No. 288,151.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EVA K. GIBSON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Garment-Hangers, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to an improvement in garmenthangers of the class in which a bar is employed for hanging upon it the separate hangers or frames.

My primary object is to provide a construction of garment-hanger in the class above-referred to, which will afford economy in space, especially in clothesclosets, whereby a number of the garment-hangers may be placed in a closet and ready access may be obtained to any one of them and to any article of clothing hung thereon without impediment fromany of the other hangers or subjecting the garments to disarrangement: I accomplish this object by flexibly suspending the rack or bar, which is adapted to have the separate garment-hangers suspended upon it, from a yoke and providing means for raising and lowering the bar relative to the yoke. i

My invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawing by a perspective view showing, in full lines the garment-hanger and a portion of the covering provided for enveloping suspended garments, and in dotted lines the remainder of the covering and the cord and pull-rope in the positions they attain by elevating the rack.

A is a yoke provided on its ends with pulleys A and with an intermediate eye a by which it may be suspended from a support, such as a ceiling (not shown), as by a hook or a screw-eye a. Flexibly suspended from the yoke, as by a cord B passing over the pulleys A is a frame 0 comprising, preferably, a pair of parallel garment-hangers rods 0 forming a rack, held rigidly separated from each other by end rods c secured to the ends of the rods 0 The members of each pair of the rods 0, as shown, are united'at their upper ends and to these ends are fastened the ends of the cord B. A cover-hanging rod C is secured at its opposite ends to the end-rods between and above the rods 0 which serves as a support for a cover D for enveloping and thus shielding garments hung on the device, the cover being composed of suitable cloth gathered along its top edge above the rod, as shown.

E is a pull-rope attached to the cord B near its center between the pulleys A, for drawing down the cord to as shown, with notches O for positioning-the separate clothes-hangers (not shown) crosswise of the rods and at the desired distance apart. It will thus be seen that a number of the garment-hangers may be hung in a small room and ready access be obtained to the 'in nermost or intermediate hanger by lowering the one desired, the others remaining in elevated positions, thus out of the way of impeding ready access to any one for lowering it to permit access to the garments upon it.

By providing the element A in the form of a stiff yoke at the apex or eye of which it may be suspended, the hanger may be hung on a hook or other support de-' pending vertically from a ceiling, or extending horizontally from a wall of a closet or tent, thereby adapt ing the hanger to be used under varying conditions where economy in space is requisite.

What I claim as new and desire to secure by Letter Patent is 1. A garmenthang'er comprising, in combination, a stiff yoke provided with an eye by which it may be suplmgged, a palr of pulleys connected to the yoke at opposite en a clothes-hanger rack, consisting of parallel separate garment-hanger bars, endrods rigidly connecting and spacing said bars apart in different vertical planes, a cord running through said pulleys and having its ends connected to the rack, and a second cord attached to said first cord intermediate of said pulleys, whereby said rack may be raised and lowered. 2. A garmenthanger comprising, in combination, a stiff yoke provided with an eyeby which it may be supported, a pair of pulleys connected to the yoke at opposite ends, a clothes hanger rack consisting of parallel separate garment-hanger bars, end-rods rigidly connecting and spacing said bars apart in different vertical planes, :1 cover-supporting bar mounted in the rack above said garmenthanger bars, a cord running through said pulleys and having its ends connected to the rack, and a second cord at-. tached to said first cord intermediate of said pulleys, whereby said rack may be raised and lowered.

E VA K. GIBSON. In presence ofi W. B. DAVIES, .T. II. LANDES. 

